The Press., 1887-07-21
Worcester Evening Gazette, July 11th )
 FOREIGN INFLUX.
DANGER TO AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS THRo'
 IMMIGRATION.


 Rev. I. J. Lansing preached the second of his midsummer sermons at the Salem street church last evening before 8 large audience. The subject was Foreign Im- migration, It's Danger to Church and State" The text was taken from Colos- sians iii, II, and in opening the sermon MT. Lansing wished it to be understood that he had no prejudice against any man on account of his nationality or the shade of his skin. Last week we heard how the 1 highest honors at Yale had been carried off by Chinaman, and how later he had been married to one of New Haven s bellies. They have my fullest consent. believe in it if they do. The foreigners are here, and they are coming America is cosmopolitan, and for that reason 1t is uubecoming in one race to be intolerant toward any other. I notice that the spirit of intolerance is strongest among the latest arrivals. The Irishmen object to the Chinaman, and the German joins in the prejudice, while both detest the black man, who has been here longer than either of them. According to the last census, there were 50, 600, 900 of people here, and 7,000,000 of these were born abroad. When speak of foreigners mean people foreign born, and I have not classed as foreigners those born here of foreign par ents. The people who come over here are generally the e ...,: .. POOREST AND MOST IGNORANT a part of the nation to which they belong. Go abroad, and you will see that this is true. A considerable part of these for. eigners are located in large cities. In New York city there is one foreigner for every two and half natives. In Phila- delphia the proportion is one to four in Brooklyn it is one to three; in Boston one to two and quarter, and so on. During the first part of the year 300, 900 foreigners were landed on our shores. They furnish one.fifth of the inmates of our prisons, one-fourth of our paupers and one fourth of our insane.
 is shown by their occupations. Statistics show that there are saloon keepers, 1t brewers, wine and spirit merchants, distillerS, cigar makers, foreigners, to every one native. You can judge for your self as we'll as I whether they are danger ous or not. But all these people come here lawfully, although in opposition tC all principles or right.
 Now, what can we do? We haze for bidden Chinamen, the best behaved O. foreigners, coming here to locate, but doubt if European immigration could bt forbidden. The clannishness of immi grants in a foreign country moulds then into a sort of 'state within state, so tha they work together, politically, with unanimity that Is unknown among natives Foreigners who land here impregnateC with theories that have brought
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 elsewhere, have no right to experimen with such things here. The desolatioi which might result woull involve native Americans and the foreign born alike. IT. counterbalance this we should remembe that he Irish and Germans are the mos domestic of people. Nevertheless, the i'm migrants bring habits and customs tha are calculated to undermine every Ameri can principle and ruin the American fami ly. The balance of political power ,is of ten in such hands that no party Ieade ] would dare 10 champion such principle The only hope of diminishing iinmigrs tion Is that foreign potentates will see tn importance of keeping their people at hom I to cultivate their vast tracts of unculti vated arabic lands. Germany and Russii } have prairies equal to our own, and hvel , England has much land within her owl possessions to improve. The man wh will not stand up for his country does no deserve to have a country. We native must live as Americans, and spend none, : if necessary, to instruct the new corners i the principles of American institutions The only reliance of America must be tn medication of the principles upon whicl the republic was founded, and @ strict ad herence to them by the native element.